Zebra

My brain broke down the other day, after thinking too much. I found a strange, thrilly pleasure in using my brain, but did it far beyond its safety limits, I think. I'm still not sure if it was worth it. I had some time to kill, but I could have been dancing instead.

There had been an opening party, and there had been a trivia quiz for fun. One question was about zebras' stripes. Are zebras white with black stripes, or are they black with white stripes? The allegedly correct answer, when given, was "black with white stripes".

I was appalled. I couldn't sleep after hearing that. I cried.

Because zebras are obviously striped in black and white. They are born that way, and the stripes don't come off. They are not black, not white, but striped in black and white.

But those who handed out the trivia prizes had been listening to an obviously very stupid avatar called Wiki Pedia. But they seem to believe that Wiki is very bright. Maybe they don't even think it's an avatar, but one of the First Life humans. They probably do.

I should have won that trivia prize! What was it? Was it edible?

Someone defended Wiki, saying that zebra crossings are white stripes on a dark or black background. Which means that zebras too are black with white stripes. I have no comment on that. Oh, well, I do. I think it's ever so clever. You bow to no one, sir.

Afterwards, I searched for Wiki Pedia. And there's no such avatar! So I think that those party guys made it all up. When realizing they had made a mistake, after giving my prize to someone else, they made Wiki up, expecting to get away with it.

"it's just stupid serval", they probably laughed, and then told me:

"u know, serval, wiki pedia says zebras r black or dark animals w white stripes, n their bellies ..."

Screw Wiki Pedia. And screw zebras. All the above is the reason why my brain broke down and I couldn't sleep. I didn't like it. Ok, the party was nice otherwise, I admit that.